The Games@Large Integrated Project's (IP) mission is to research, develop and implement a new platform aimed at providing users with a richer variety of entertainment experience in familiar environments, such as their entire house, hotel room, elderly house and Internet Café. This will support ubiquitous game-play throughout such environments, while taking advantage of existing hardware and providing multiple members of the family and community the ability to play simultaneously and to share experiences.

The principle is focused around a centralized gaming server, responsible for the storage and execution of the game software, interfacing with multiple, distributed gaming displays and control units, including the TV, hand-held devices and other elements. Whether at home, in a hotel room or at the Internet Café, users can easily enjoy the video gaming experience, in a similar fashion to how VoD services enable users to consume movies today. Users will receive instantaneous, ubiquitous access to high-end video-games, all without requiring specialized hardware on either the service provider or the consumer side and without requiring significant network resources.

The Games@Large project is funded under the IST (Information Society Technologies) priority of the European Union's FP6 (Sixth Framework Programme).